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20202026
most citedThe ASTRID simulation: the evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

144 citations · 687 across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

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46 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Theoretical emission lines and metallicity calibrations of H II regions in ASTRID simulation

Yao Yao, Kathryn Grasha, Stuart Wyithe +5

We present a theoretical framework to derive redshift-dependent metallicity calibrations for galaxies at =2-7. The ionization parameter () and gas pressure () in our appro…

astro-ph.GA2026

Cosmic Pairs: A DESI Census of Dual and Offset AGN as Precursors to Massive Black Hole Binaries

Ekaterine Dadiani, Antonella Palmese, Yihao Zhou +52

We present a systematic census of dual and offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) using spectroscopic data from the first data release (DR1) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrumen…

astro-ph.GA2026

Matter Clustering in Astrid: Reduced Baryonic Suppression from Realistic Black Hole Dynamics

Yanhui Yang, Simeon Bird, Yihao Zhou +4

Baryonic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is often invoked as a major source of suppression in the matter power spectrum, with implications for precision cosmology and th…

astro-ph.GA2026

The LISA Astrophysics MBHcatalogues Project: A comparison of predictions of simulated massive black hole binaries

David Izquierdo-Villalba, Melanie Habouzit, Matteo Bonetti +67

In the hierarchical paradigm of galaxy formation, central massive black holes (MBHs) are expected to coalesce after the merger of their host galaxies. One of the main goals of the…

astro-ph.GA2025

Connecting current and future dual AGN searches to LISA and PTA gravitational wave detections

Nianyi Chen, Yihao Zhou, Ekaterine Dadiani +10

Dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) mark an observable stage of massive black hole (MBH) pairing in galaxy mergers and are precursors to the MBH binaries that generate low-frequency…

astro-ph.GA2025

From ASTRID to BRAHMA -- The role of overmassive black holes in little red dots in cosmological simulations

Patrick LaChance, Aklant Kumar Bhowmick, Rupert A. C. Croft +8

We leverage the overmassive black holes () present in a realization of the BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to investigate their ro…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The ASTRID Simulation at z=0: From Massive Black Holes to Large-scale Structure

Yihao Zhou, Tiziana Di Matteo, Simeon Bird +7

We present the results for the cosmological simulation ASTRID. Hosting 0.33 trillion particles in a box of per side, ASTRID is one o…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dynamics of low-mass black hole seeds in the BRAHMA simulations using subgrid-dynamical friction: Impact on merger-driven black hole growth in the high redshift Universe

Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Luke Z. Kelley +7

We analyze the dynamics of low-mass black hole (BH) seeds in the high-redshift () Universe using a suite of and BRAHMA cosmol…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The Properties of Little Red Dot Galaxies in the ASTRID Simulation

Patrick LaChance, Rupert A. C. Croft, Tiziana Di Matteo +5

We present simulated counterparts of the ``Little Red Dot'' (LRD) galaxies observed with JWST, using the large cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, ASTRID. We create mock observat…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Large-scale surveys of the quasar proximity effect

Rupert A. C. Croft, Patrick Shaw, Ann-Marsha Alexis +6

The UV radiation from high redshift quasars causes a local deficit in the neutral hydrogen absorption (Lyman-alpha forest) in their spectra, known as the proximity effect. Measurem…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 7 cited

Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Hole Mergers in ASTRID: Predictions for LISA

Bonny Y. Wang, Yihao Zhou, William Chen +5

We use the ASTRID cosmological simulation to forecast massive black hole (MBH) mergers detectable by Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) down to . ASTRID directly models…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Gravitational Wave Background from Massive Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation

Nianyi Chen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Yihao Zhou +6

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) observations have detected nanohertz gravitational waves, likely originating from massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). The detected amplitude is un…

astro-ph.GA2025

Central Cluster Galaxies: A Hotspot for Detectable Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers

Yihao Zhou, Tiziana Di Matteo, Nianyi Chen +6

After Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have announced the evidence for a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB), the continuous waves (CWs) are the next anticipated gravitati…

astro-ph.CO2024

Large-scale dual AGN in large-scale cosmological hydrodynamical simulations

Clara Puerto-Sánchez, Melanie Habouzit, Marta Volonteri +10

Detecting dual active galactic nuclei (DAGN) in observations and understanding theoretically which massive black holes (MBHs) compose them and in which galactic and large-scale env…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The redshift evolution of the scaling relation: new insights from cosmological simulations and semi-analytic models

Shashank Dattathri, Priyamvada Natarajan, Antonio J. Porras-Valverde +4

We study the co-evolution of black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies in the ASTRID and Illustris-TNG300 cosmological simulations and the Dark Sage Semi-Analytic Model (SAM), focu…

astro-ph.GA2024

MAGICS III. Seeds sink swiftly: nuclear star clusters dramatically accelerate seed black hole mergers

Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Yihao Zhou, Nianyi Chen +2

Merger rate predictions of Massive Black Hole (MBH) seeds from large-scale cosmological simulations differ widely, with recent studies highlighting the challenge of low-mass MBH se…

astro-ph.GA2024

MAGICS II. Seed black holes stripped of their surrounding stars do not sink

Yihao Zhou, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Nianyi Chen +7

MBH seed mergers are expected to be among the loudest sources of gravitational waves detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), providing a unique window into the b…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Astrid Simulation: Evolution of black holes and galaxies to z=0.5 and different evolution pathways for galaxy quenching

Yueying Ni, Nianyi Chen, Yihao Zhou +5

We present new results from the ASTRID simulation from to , covering the epoch of cosmic noon. The galaxy stellar mass function, as well as the black hole mass and lum…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 2 cited

Active Galactic Nuclei and Host Galaxies in COSMOS-Web. II. First Look at the Kpc-scale Dual and Offset AGN Population

Junyao Li, Ming-Yang Zhuang, Yue Shen +3

Kpc-scale dual and offset Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are signposts of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) triggered during late-stage galaxy mergers, offering crucial ins…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Astrometric Jitter as a Detection Diagnostic for Recoiling and Slingshot Supermassive Black Hole Candidates

Anavi Uppal, Charlotte Ward, Suvi Gezari +4

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can be ejected from their galactic centers due to gravitational wave recoil or the slingshot mechanism following a galaxy merger. If an ejected SMB…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

The evolution of galaxy morphology from redshift z=6 to 3: Mock JWST observations of galaxies in the ASTRID simulation

Patrick LaChance, Rupert Croft, Yueying Ni +3

We present mock JWST observations for more than 250,000 different galaxies from the Astrid simulation with . The mock observations are made using the BPASS stellar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Searching for the Highest-z Dual AGN in the Deepest Chandra Surveys

Brandon Sandoval, Adi Foord, Steven W. Allen +9

We present an analysis searching for dual AGN among 62 high-redshift () X-ray sources selected from publicly available deep Chandra fields. We aim to quantify the fr…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

z~2 dual AGN host galaxies are disky: stellar kinematics in the ASTRID Simulation

Ekaterine Dadiani, Tiziana Di Matteo, Nianyi Chen +6

We study dual AGN host galaxy morphologies at using the ASTRID simulation, selecting black hole (BH) pairs with small separation (), high mass ($M_{\text{BH,12…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

MAGICS I. The First Few Orbits Encode the Fate of Seed Massive Black Hole Pairs

Nianyi Chen, Diptajyoti Mukherjee, Tiziana Di Matteo +3

The elusive massive black hole (MBH) seeds stand to be revealed by the Laser Space Antenna Interferometer through mergers. As an aftermath of galaxy mergers, MBH coalescence is a v…